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That is to say, there may be a difference of reading here and there which impairs the full beauty and accuracy of the blessed word of God; but, as to the substance, the most timid may be assured that you have it in the worst editions of Christendom. Resources . The epistle to the Ephesians views the saint as already blessed by God in heavenly places in Christ. In fact, Thayer gives their definitions as the same, "to direct ones mind to a thing, to seek, or strive for" (658). Isn't it interesting how we want to make sure that our children don't make the same mistakes that we made. Paul goes on in Colossians 3 to talk about the present life, exhorting to put off the old life because those in Christ have died and have been raised with Christ. The science of language is a new science and the desire to know other languages a new desire. Not because He is the first-born of all creation simply, nay, nor because He is the creator of all. And so put off the old man, and put on the new. He calls him Christ our life. Christ, says he, calls us upwards to himself, while these draw us downwards. For this is the winding-up and exposition of what he had lately touched upon as to the abolition of ceremonies through the death of Christ. And we, the presumption here, is that the parents are Christians and are seeking the spiritual welfare of the child. You can't. Philosophy, on the contrary, made matters worse, as indeed did the resources of human religion. There is more said even here to maintain the full glory of Christ. In point of time the world had grown comparatively old before Jesus appeared. [Note: Lightfoot, p. Can anything be sweeter than this genuine simplicity of affection and mutual interest? The gratitude of the Church has always gone up to God in praise and song. They were endeavouring to strike an alliance between Christ and the world. Colossians 3:2 ESV Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. (433) See Calvin on the Corinthians, vol. They had really themselves slipped away in heart: no such hope had found favour otherwise. 2 To the d saints and faithful brothers 1 in Christ at Colossae:. He uses the same line of thought in Romans 8:13: "If you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live." Can we do it, asking for his help?" he was minister of both. And as he becomes cold, then she feels all the more insecure and she has to challenge all the more. If you knew Him better, you would feel it yourself. If it is the desire for prestige, it leads to evil ambition. The ceremonies of the law have no further use (16-17).Neither should Christians listen to those who want to show their superior knowledge by mixing their own philosophies with the gospel. 224-26.]. Do you say, Yes, but why not God create by the highest as an instrument? A short greeting Paul began most of his letters in this way. For Christianity is not a mere thing of doing this or not doing that; it is a growth, because it is of the Spirit in life and power. Observe, (1.) Make sure that we're not making unreasonable demands upon them, taking away their humanness, causing discouragement. [Note: Vaughan, p. The slave and the free man came together in the Church. If it is the desire for money, it leads to theft. Although there were difficulties and hindrances, how much, he feels, there is for which to praise our God and Father: "Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet" (and observe well, it is not merely for the certainty that He will, but in the peaceful assurance that He has made us meet) "to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light." And we do recognize that the highest authority in our life is God. If it is the desire for a person, it leads to sexual sin. Next we enter on the apostle's thanksgiving. When a man becomes a Christian, there ought to be a complete change in his personality. Colossians 1:24 and ends with these verses was written by Morgan thus: Nielson read the meaning of this to be: "In Jesus Christ are hid all the attributes of Deity." Guthrie's significant analysis of these two verses is: Analysis. Hey, it opens up so many opportunities to witness for you. The words "set" and "affection" are very much alike. It is based on two things. It is not merely the life of a Christ that lived in this world, but the life of Him that was lifted up on the cross, and bore my sins there. I may be perfectly certain, whatever may be my sorrow or travail of spirit about anything, Christ feels far more deeply (yea, infinitely deeper than any other) those that may excite any of us. 209.]. We are offered two realities; things above and things on earth. And if we are dead to the earth, and have renounced it as our happiness, it is absurd for us to set our affections upon it, and seek it. Scripture must not be sacrificed rudely to our seeming comfort. Who ever appealed in distress, and did not find in Him bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering? The expression "brethren," though of course flowing from Christ, brings forward their relationship by grace to each other. But there is far more than growth in knowledge, or even by the knowledge of God. It is not to be found in tradition, still less in philosophy. Yet He has absolute peace, never broken or ruffled for an instant. To the former the Holy Ghost could launch out into the fulness of our blessing in Christ. For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God ( Colossians 3:2-3 ). It is evident, therefore, that to enter on the privileges of the church, the body of Christ, would have in nowise met the evil which the enemy was seeking to inflict on the Colossians. In Romans the emphatic point is simply death, because the argument of the apostle in chapter 6 does not admit of going beyond the truth that the baptized believer is alive from the dead not exactly risen, but alive unto God. I am responsible to him." Satan is allowed apparently to go on as if he had won the final victory; but God brings the truth of what He has done into the heart where Satan had most of all deceived before. It is interesting to see that from the beginning the Church was a singing Church. We don't have distinctions in Jesus Christ, religious, ethnic or whatever; Christ is everything. Such is the basis of the liberty wherewith Christ has set us free. His was by no means a love inactive or limited. To me to live is Christ,Philippians 1:21. Hence it runs: "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven." Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the children of disobedience" ( Ephesians 5:5 , Ephesians 5:6 ). And how is this to be accomplished? You're not under the laws: touch not, handle not, taste not. In a sense Paul is saying--and saying truly--that some day the verdicts of eternity will reverse the verdicts of time and the judgments of God will overturn the judgments of men. Because the wife feels the love and the security and she knows, "Hey, he's my man." Have you renounced these hidden things of the world? But he adds: "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled;" and we must not weaken this. Accordingly, he brings in now for this object the twofold truth: "for in him," says he, "dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. You're His servant. At the second coming of Christ there will be a general meeting of all the saints; and those whose life is now hid with Christ shall then appear with Christ in that glory which he himself enjoys, John 17:24. There is not only the contemplative side but the active, and this makes the saint truly passive; for if we are strengthened, it is mainly not to do, but to endure in a world which knows not Christ. But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done: and there is no respect of persons ( Colossians 3:25 ). Then she finds it easy to submit to him, because she knows that he loves her supremely. The master must treat the slave not like a thing, but like a person, with justice and with the equity which goes beyond justice. Human patience is a reflection of the divine patience which bears with all our sinning and never casts us off. Colossians Colossians 2 Colossians 2 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. This is not holding the Head. Can you say that Christ is my life? Like a mine of unknown and inexhaustible wealth, the treasures of wisdom are all in Him hidden, but not in order to remain so; they only need to be explored for you to attain "unto the riches" in them ( Colossians 2:2 ); but until you, Colossians, press after attaining the full knowledge "hidden." "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Satan knew well what he sought in alienating many a Christian from this blessed man of God, and in carping at his ministry, and the testimony he was given to bear. And you should be seeking those things which are above where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Blasphemia is insulting and slanderous speaking in general; when that insulting speech is directed against God, it becomes blasphemy. I'm macho. As also, looked at individually, the Christian is a son of God, so there should be a growth up to Christ in all things. The Christian doctrine of work is that master and man alike are working for God, and that, therefore, the real rewards of work are not assessable in earthly coin, but will some day be given--or withheld--by God. The first is outward and the second inward. But they are to be the people in whose midst the glory of Jehovah will take up its abode. Our affections should not be fixed on houses and lands; on scenes of fashion and gaiety; on low and debasing enjoyments. The rule for the wife: submit yourself unto your own husband. We can readily understand that the Spirit did not bring out the fulness of the glory of Christ then, but as it was needed. To the Colossians the Holy Ghost has to speak about their state, and along with this to present the truth of Christ as a remedy for it; not so much as the centre of blessedness and joy in the communion of the saints, but as supplying the true and only divine corrective to the efforts of Satan, who would drag them down into tradition on the one hand, and into philosophy on the other, the too common snares of human nature, and the latter more particularly for cultivated and reasoning minds. (ii) The Christian ethic lays down the duty of the child to respect the parental relationship. If He is, the fulness, you are made full in Him, "which is the head of all principality and power." Ambitions which dominated the world, will be powerless to touch him. "He is the head of all principality and power: in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the flesh [for so it runs] by the circumcision of Christ: buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen.". Therefore he might well press, "If ye continue. When he was writing to the Philippians, he said, "For me to live is Christ" ( Php_1:21 ). The New Testament never hesitates to demand with a certain violence the complete elimination of everything which is against God. In other words, it's not what you say which really counts; it's how you're walking that counts. Am I entitled, as I look upon Christians henceforth, to see nothing but Christ in any and Christ in every one? On the other hand, the epistle to the Ephesians abounds with such allusions. The Colossians from their dabbling with tradition and philosophy were in danger on this side. They needed to know, I will not say, that Christ suffices only; but that there is such fulness of blessing and glory in Christ as utterly to eclipse and condemn all that flesh would glory in. The children of Israel made a tragic mistake thinking, "Well, we are God's chosen people, and we can live like the nations around us." (i) It destroyed the barriers which came from birth and nationality. He meant to reconcile man spite of himself; He would prove His own love to be the conqueror of his hatred. NASB Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth. What is there here to make us fond of it? Set your affection on things above, not on things on the, set their affections on the things that are above. The first 2 chapters present Christ as our Lord, Chapter 3 presents Christ as our Life and Chapter 4 presents Christ as our Love. Tradition never manifested the true God. Worldly lusts are to be denied, the deeds of the body are to be mortified, carnal desires are not to be gratified and indulged, provision is not to be made for the flesh, to fulfil its lusts; and particularly the vain philosophy of Jews and Gentiles, the traditions of the elders, the ceremonies of the law, which lay in earthly things, in worldly observances, the difference of meats and drinks, keeping of days, months, and years, new moons, feasts, and sabbath days; the rudiments of the world, the commandments and doctrines which were of the earth, and lay in not touching, tasting, and handling certain things that are on earth, and which perish with the using, as opposed to the doctrines of the Gospel, and ordinances of Christ, which are from above, and come from heaven, and have a spiritual and heavenly use: and which is the sense chiefly intended, though it is best to understand the words in their largest compass. Montgomery was famous as a disciplinarian--but there was another side to him. It is a liberty founded on death, displayed in resurrection, known in the Spirit. Max Miller was one of the great experts of the science of language. There is a present witness of the victory of Jesus. ", All the blessedness that Christ has procured is for those that believe; but this of course supposes that they hold Him fast. As the withering evils of Satan came in, the value of that which their hearts clung to formed an increasing part of their testimony, until at last the full, undiminished, and even brightening truth of His divine glory was brought out in all its fulness. require us to pronounce on evil ways in order to look into this evil doctrine or that; but the apostle speaks now of the saints in their ordinary and normal manner. They use freely His name; they in word and bodily exercise do Him no small reverence; but without faith all is vain. The sense of the phrase can be captured with "direct your mind to minding things above.". Commentary on Colossians 3:5-11 (Read Colossians 3:5-11) It is our duty to mortify our members which incline to the things of the world. That real object is Jesus Christ. Christian speech must be kind and pure and honest to all men and in all places. Leave off therefore earthly things. I shall not contend against others who are of a different mind; but certainly the Apostle appears to me to go on step by step, so that, in the first instance, he places traditions as to trivial matters in contrast with meditation on the heavenly life, and afterwards, as we shall see, goes a step farther. Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, Nymphas, and the church which is in his house. The apostle exhorts us to set our hearts upon heaven and take them off from this world (v. 1-4). There was, there could be, no lack of the attractiveness of love and power in Him who went about doing good; yet miserable hearts did not turn to Him, save where the grace of God the Father drew them to the only adequate expression of Himself. The essence of idolatry is, in fact, the desire to have more. We are so in profession and obligation; for we are buried with Christ, and planted into the likeness of his death. Colossians 3:11 "Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all." This Bible verse shows us that we all have hope in Christ and that God is no respecter of persons, race, or social standing in life. Sections. Or to come at it another way, the man whose life is dominated by the desire to get things has set up things in the place of God--and that precisely is idolatry. Seek those things that are above. He has put me in charge of it. It is true. The wife is to submit to the husband. These things at first sight appear far apart, but they are not so in result. Do not lie to one another. [Note: Barclay, p. Have a mind all of whose thoughts are fixed on the things which are above, not upon the things on earth. We must acquaint ourselves with them, esteem them above all other things, and lay out ourselves in preparation for the enjoyment of them. II. (a) Set your mind on the things above. What a humbling consideration that those so blessed (dead, as we have said, and risen with Christ) are here told to mortify what is most shameful and shameless! Everything which would keep him from fully obeying God and fully surrendering to Christ must be surgically excised. He it is who works in the various gifts of Christ, welding them together, so that it may be truly Christ through His body. But whereas he said, "that you, being dead," were now thus raised, so he says, "blotting it out against us;" for all that we, poor Jews, could boast the ordinances were against us instead of being for us, and they are gone now. I. The Greeks themselves defined it as insatiate desire and said that you might as easily satisfy it as you might fill with water a bowl with a hole in it. Nor is continuance in prayer all; but vigilant watch in the same, which does not let slip the just occasion for supplication; and as all things were to be done with thanksgiving, so prayer also, which would assuredly not forget the need of those in the forefront of the spiritual warfare and toil of love. Most of all this was the case in slavery. ", It is no use denying the plain truth "when ye lived in them;" it is blessed to know that we are dead now. But the first characteristic result of Christ's work on the cross was the veil that shut up the holiest rent from top to bottom. Neither His headship of all creation as the Heir of all things, nor His creatorial rights, would in themselves give a sufficient title to be the Head of the body. The way to right action is to appoint Jesus Christ as the arbiter between the conflicting emotions in our hearts; and if we accept his decisions, we cannot go wrong. The Higher Aspirations of the Soul. It is plain that however blessed this is, still it supposes wants, and a measure of weakness, and this for the ordinary walk of the Christian; that they might "walk worthy of the Lord," says he. We know well that God is making a good use of them, and that, in point of fact, if we meddle, it can only be to loss and confusion. The word father in his mind stood for nothing but severity. Here he at once addresses himself, after the thanksgiving, to their condition and of course to their need First, as usual, he owns what they had of God. 3:5-9a So, then, put to death these parts of you which are earthly-- fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, the desire to get more than you ought--for this is idol worship; and because of these things the wrath of God comes upon those who are disobedient. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord ( Colossians 3:16-18 ). 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. What could be more vast than the reconciliation of all things in heaven and earth? He is all, and He is in all. It is rather "your mind;" for here, however important the state of the heart, it is a question simply of the whole bent and judgment. The fit time and suited speech, always in grace, not without faithfulness Godward, how good and needful they are! In it there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free man, but Christ is all in all. If there was one thing the ancient world needed it was mercy. CHRIST OUR LIFE ( Colossians 3:1-4 continued). They that do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. That may be putting bread on the table, but your life really is bound up in Jesus Christ. The tendency of any body of people is sooner or later to fly apart; love is the one bond which will hold them together in unbreakable fellowship. At any rate this was his mission. Treasures are often hidden for the sake of keeping them safe. "And be ye thankful. Jesus Christs present rule on His Fathers throne over the church is not the same as His rule on Davids throne over Davids kingdom, which will begin when He returns to earth. 1. Since men have a certain knowledge of Christ's death, they are striving to die. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. The Jew looked only for a mighty King Messiah; the Christian is baptized into the death of Him who suffered on the cross, and finds not alone his sins forgiven, but sin, the flesh, condemned, and himself now viewed of God as dead to all; for nothing less is set forth in baptism. That is an attitude which is not unfamiliar today, although often it is supported by specious arguments. This remains for the day of Christ's glory, and will fill a most important part in the purposes of God. How can that be? But our Lord is the Christ who condemned the first man, Fallen humanity by Him was detected and judged root and branch. Not to be a man pleaser, "Oh, the boss is coming. "He will, for instance, set giving above getting, serving above ruling, forgiving above avenging. As God forgave him, so he must forgive others, for only the forgiving can be forgiven. Now he is alive, because God raised him from the dead (2:12). Brethren, the Christ that God has made known to us is the Christ that man scorned, cast out and crucified. Sorrowful circumstances may, alas! Their desire, we may be sure, was as well meant as any mistake can be. (iv) It destroyed the barrier between class and class. Not that there may not be danger even then; save that as long as the eye is on Christ there is none, because what is inconsistent with His name is refused. There was no doubt a suitability for each line of truth in the wants of the saints respectively addressed; nor do I think it can be intelligently questioned that the condition of the Ephesian saints was better than that of those at Colosse. Why be found running from the substance after the shadow? Dean, "A Study of the Enthronement of Christ in Acts 2, 3" (Th.M. Christians must put off slander and foul talk and they must not lie to one another. You seem to have such a good attitude. It is somewhat startling at first sight to realize such a fact, but if it be a fact as I unqualifiedly assert is it not of great moment to understand it? Yet, carrying out his ministry with continual tears, he looked before men as one whom none of these things moved. (b) So he calls that show of religion which he spoke of in the former chapter. What is there not there to draw our hearts to it? There was much that was blessed at Colosse; and the apostle loves to give full credit for it. For assuredly God is not trusted where there is so much as a desire thus to alter or turn aside a single word, for one's own convenience or any pretext whatsoever. He must be heavenly-minded here on earth and so help to make earth like heaven." C. F. D. Moule well describes it as "the opposite of the desire to give.". Under Roman law a slave could not possess any property whatsoever and here he is being promised nothing less than the inheritance of God. In the one they are waiting to be taken to heaven in an actual sense; in the other they belong already to heaven by virtue of their union with Christ. Proud, fallen nature is satisfied even by these efforts to put down the body; whereas God would have the body to have a certain honour in its own place, and that of the Christian is the temple of the Holy Ghost. Paul narrowed himself to no local ties, nor should we allow such a thing for an instant. And so he lists these things and he says, "Look, the wrath of God is coming upon the earth because of these things. (ii) It is most significant to note that every one of the graces listed has to do with personal relationships between man and man. In its own nature like the rays from the sky, it was the sun not for one part of the world alone, but for every quarter. Then you have a happy relationship. The hope laid up for us in heaven supposes a position on the earth. 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